news from today and this week israel and gaza settle into an uneasy cease fire out for eight days of airstrikes and rocket attacks but a long term peace deal is yet to be agreed upon. crowds of protesters face tear gas in cairo as they marched out furious at the islamic president for granting himself sweeping new powers. e.u. leaders leave brussels with no decision on their trillion euro common spending with a new round of the budget battle moved to the next year. meanwhile with financial troubles taking their toll on european regions catalans go to the polls in an election dominated by separatists feeling.

welcome back you're watching the weekly are with me lucy catherine of the cease fire in gaza that ended an eight day israeli offensive remains intact despite the fact that details of a lasting peace deal have yet to be negotiated more than one hundred sixty palestinians were killed in the assault while hamas rocket attacks killed six israelis. many of them are disappointed with the outcome of the operation and see the truce as a victory for hamas. alyssa and rachel packing for the us a cease fire might have been announced but they're not waiting around to see if it works the women were part of an internship program to see what it's like to live in israel so they came they saw and now they choosing to leave if you spend very anxious living on a mess like knowing that at any moment the size right off i may have to go into a bomb shelter and like it's being scared of public transportation and staff.

the streets of tel aviv are a far cry from the streets of gaza when news of the truce was met with celebrations and fireworks the somewhat muted israeli reaction belies a growing disappointment in the way many here feel the government handled things but i do think that israel finished the operation just so and i think finished it very soon and i think we had a good momentum for this operation we have a very good start and i think that if we would have continued we could have achieved a. better result from it's i do think that we could have put some more pressure oh and the organization of hamas. would probably. keep us from further rocket attacks in the future i hope. the government has good reason to finish it now many military experts and commentators believe the

ceasefire was a strategic victory for hamas for two hours off to officially came into force rocket fire from gaza continued it seems that the israeli government has given in to some of the demands of hamas and has made an agreement with a terror organization i think a lot of red lines have been crossed and among the disappointed i viewed friedman a lone protester on television campus he's frustrated his army didn't into gaza and was one of the first to call his officer to volunteer it's important for our safety for our. so civilians safety and that's what we should do against it i'm prepared today for my counter any day any time. but tel aviv insists its operation was a success enabling it to destroy a significant portion of the masses infrastructure hundreds of rocket launchers and dozens of smuggling tunnels i believe that the ceasefire in the day was just a means to an end and the end was peace and quiet however it came about is less

important as the results and result hopefully will be peace and quiet a return to normalcy for israelis and also innocent palestinians on the other side of the border but hamas claims tel aviv capitulated to its demands especially by agreeing to ease its blockade on gaza the group also showed its military prowess are sending rockets for the first time from gaza to jerusalem and later to television capabilities that have made hamas a real hero of the palestinian resistance the conflict also managed to silence the more moderate palestinian government as must motor bus which is why some are pointing out that israel has sent a very dangerous message to the arab world if you want to get something from israel you have to go to war policy r.t. tel aviv. while israel hailed its operation as pinpoint and targeting only hamas militants refugee camps government buildings even media complexes came under attack on gaza activists terry fear who's currently working there says the press signs didn't exactly guarantee safety for journalists. israel's military

operation pillar of cloud has officially ended it started with the assassination of a senior hamas commander. buried here. more than one thousand two hundred palestinians were wounded overwhelmingly children and women and over one hundred sixty seven were killed half of them civilians including journalists israel says when it targeted the top and eleventh floor of this the show building and it was targeting hamas as operational communications and injured six when it struck the al could t.v. office just below here. at exactly one fifty three on sunday the occupying forces started bombing our office the satellite channel located on the eleventh floor in the western side of the building and the three rockets hit us my colleagues and i was wounded and one of the striking things about the eight day war was the number of journalists that were explicitly targeted by israeli forces three appeared to be

deliberately assassinated. on monday israel called major local news agencies ordering them to evacuate their premises it then targeted a computer center belonging to the al aksa t.v. channel based in the building in gaza city setting interplays killing two and injuring several star this is what's left of the second floor of the building in central gaza city reporters without borders says that this building is known in gaza as the reporters building. the targeting of any journalist or civilian and international law is a war crime and war reporting is explicitly protected under international humanitarian law the next day israel targeted a press car carrying two al aksa t.v. cameramen they burned to death i got an american i got in yesterday near our home

a car with a press load i drove past with two young men inside and all of a sudden we saw a rocket hit the car and those inside were killed we pulled one of them out in pieces but couldn't get to the other one he was literally on fire of course it was the press but what else can you say. and i'll could say are the most popular t.v. stations in palestine israel says they're not legitimate journalistic enterprises and that they're associated with the islamic jihad group and the quote hamas terror organization. only had a camera was the press was in european press with the talk of democracy these crimes are being committed against women and children all of this democracy is a sham. israeli airstrikes targeted media offices those targeted journalists according to israeli spokes persons are neither press nor civilians at all therefore journalists are worried that the atrocities massacres perpetrated by the enemy in gaza will be concealed. israel says the.

bombardment campaign was aimed at wiping out a massive infrastructure and capacity gazan reporters say that they will never be deterred from reporting that side of the story. very fair reporting from gaza there well my colleague kevin all went talk to josh hand man he's a spokesman for the israeli defense ministry that hamas is guilty of civilian deaths in gaza. the israeli defense ministry who i represent and indeed the israeli public mourning civilian deaths on both sides i've seen it agree running around the south from bomb shelter to bomb shelter dodging rockets hearing the cries of israeli civilians and the cries in the wells of the air raid sirens let me see the graphic footage in gaza of dead children being big pulled and dug out of collapsed buildings do you maintain that the deaths. of israeli israeli airstrikes are the

fault of hamas. so i can tell you genuinely generally breaks my heart you think that we want to see dead children on any side as i said we mourn every loss of life hamas on the other hand celebrating and they are putting their own civilians in danger i cannot tell you how much we desire quiet how much we desire true peace and calm in this region when we facing an enemy that is guilty of a double war crime whereby they hardly own civilians while shooting at our civilians for every decade now we are in this predicament how ever with the most strategically surgical precision pinpoint strikes when they're hiding beneath their civilian population there will be collateral damage. more than twenty egyptian rights groups have urged the country's islamic leader to withdraw a decree that grants him sweeping new powers under it no authority can revoke presidential decisions this move has sparked mass protests across the country

security forces have fired tear gas to dispense angry demonstrators in cairo but both morsi is opponents and backers calling for more strikes now the opposition has vowed to continue with a sit in to her square pledging to fight what it calls the power grab morsi for his part has defended the move say that he was leading the country towards freedom and democracy florence freedom from the executive intelligence review magazine says that egypt's political future is now being put to the test. i think that president morsi is now on a slippery slope and it shows you how fragile and delicate this whole movement that was launched a couple years ago for our democracy and i sometimes say so-called democracy be courageous they're not really giving democratic rights to the people unless the people are participating in the government and all of the people are actually raising their standard of living i think morsi the president has made some kind of arrangement with the military

a few months ago i think he's also has strong backing from the west i think until the actual people of egypt like all these other countries have gone through the city to malta his time intill the people are giving real economic development till the given real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem on people with their lives people stayed out of demonstrations people didn't commonly by police first on the bark now in the morsi it's not going to stop until we actually have a real policy for the future of the country. colonias local elections couldn't even beating a path away from spain people go to the polls with separatist parties looking set to win have a referendum on independence likely to fall. also coming up for you bahrain looks set for more protest rally is this is the country's main opposition group of violence to defy our government ban on public gatherings all that is despite a crackdown by police stations of torture they want us.

texas wants to pull away from the usa in fact at least twenty states have started petitions for independence after obama won the election with well just a few voting irregularities but guess what suspicion will never happen it is a very easy thing to do decide to petition and it is another thing entirely to leave the usa that little civil war thing that happened back then does anyone the usa honestly think that they are gov has the ball determination to actual rebel i don't think there is a single george washington type among them well maybe just see fit tour a kind of but he's out of office how do what makes it seem like revolution or succession is this fun cool easy thing to do with cool slogans and texan flags

flying but the reality looks a lot more like the arab spring before you put your name on the dotted line as a seed you should really understand what that means and what you're in for the founding fathers sure did but that's just my opinion. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture. war lords will give him a note so we have a local. groups. called citizens. also argues in the right enough to find out it was like when you had that knowledge it wasn't just the

smadi when i was fourteen years old you can liberate other women certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun salute them the social changes can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe i'm going to stun them not to across. the patient its chemical position and that of construction stuff people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan.

welcome back i'm lucy and hope you're watching r t e.u. leaders of the last budget battle in brussels with a decision on their trillion euro common spending now move to the next year we were members had a rush to safeguard support programs while those pouring in more cash into the european coffers are urged belt tightening the u.k. was among the loudest voices in favor of coughing up less archies sarraf earth has more. with the european commission in london but in a week that seeing the brussels budget debate osome italy ending in failure is once again britain's place within europe is back in the spotlight european leaders old

similarly failing to come up with a deal that would please everyone budget that would take us from twenty forty to twenty twenty person very much wanted to be seen as leading the way in calling for the cuts indeed in the lead up to the negotiations there was a lot of concern that we see an isolated from the of the twenty six countries whose uncle a local he was the mediator these negotiations. to take birth inside an unlikely form of support perhaps but she was very much adamant that person wouldn't be left to fight this alone an exercise that we fool happening in two thousand and eleven and so we saw all those other day in the country getting behind britain in this now at the end of it the prime minister said the person didn't get a deal but they didn't get an unacceptable deal. with the calls that leaves us exactly where we started with nothing happening and so those countries are going to

be left to continue the negotiations to try and hammer out some form of a deal that's acceptable to everyone else some of the we'll get to see this budget battle continuing now into the new year he you members want to work harder next year if they want to come to an agreement if they don't want to fall back on more costly annual budget but according to the director of britain's largest euro skeptics think tax countries need to complete control over their financial affairs in order to prosper. if countries have the right to manage their own economies as they see fit then we wouldn't have this awful austerity that we're seeing we would have had these unsustainable which happened in southern europe and arland and of course we would have this enormous bust which is creating massive unemployment if their countries had their own wives to manage their own affairs and set their own legislation to their own interest rates many german economies as they see fit without having to hand over billions each year to brussels as britain does we'd be

generally a lot better off really the european union we're seeing is reached the limits of its levels of integration there are moves to expand more powers to the e.u. to have more e.u. control over national member states budgets even to have its own sources of income it's only you taxes that of course he's pushing it too far it's gone far too far in the wrong direction which is centralization and it powers were turned i think the atmosphere in europe would be a lot better off course in terms of the britain's own deficit and the debts that the u.k. has it is a small amount that the european union's asking for because the european union has already taken so much power people are just loathe to accept a situation where they're going to get any more money as europe is struggling to find a common path separatist feelings are growing in some regions and they certainly seem to be dominating the local elections in catalonia or over half of the

residents say that they want to make an independent state this with economic turmoil exasperating desires for sovereignty artie's andrew farmer is in barcelona for us well the polls have opened today in an election which could represent a step towards any final break up of spain and it is because the cattle i am president are the masses promised to hold a referendum on independence from spain it is convergence union party actually wins and that is something that is striking a chord with many cattle lands the region itself he was pretty wealthy it has an. the size of portugal's but it pays far more in taxes to the spanish government that it actually receives back into investment form from madrid and that is something that annoys some people here unemployment is at around twenty five percent and also people are having to endure tough austerity measures at the moment but nothing is a done deal because after mass does need to record an absolute majority in order to be able to push through this referendum otherwise he would be forced to form some

sort of coalition there is a sticking point to him that the referendum is actually against the spanish constitution in the spanish prime minister the only rush hoy's said he will fight it with some elements of the spanish media are actually saying that after mass could find himself arrested so nothing is clear cut at the moment and even though opinion polls do suggest that the majority of people are in favor of independence there is a strong lobby who are against separatism and their arguments are based on the economy too they say that if catalonia is forced withdrawal from spain it would businesses here would lose the spanish market but they could also lose the european union market because catalonia they fear could be forced to drop out of the e.u. and then reapply for membership which could be a long and lengthy process of the rim many arguments good arguments for and against these are issues that catalans of how to mull over over the last few weeks but today they do have to make their minds up and we should get a result later this evening parties and reform are reporting there well on our

website you can read about the latest scandal which is hitting all the headlines in the u.k. with children suffering from the political games of grownups. that's after a foster family is torn apart after local authorities the sight of the parents membership of the u.k. dependents party makes them unsuitable as parents. plus from thanksgiving to buying we have the video and stories of black friday nightmares as america went on its biggest shopping spree of the year. the opposition in bahrain has. valid to resume peaceful street protests an order to fire ban on public gatherings which was imposed last month the ruling family had claimed their structure which sparked criticism from abroad when necessary in order to restore order now the uprising in bahrain has been ongoing for some eighteen months with shiites calling for more fights and democratic reforms from the sunni regime on wednesday a court sentenced twenty three medics to three months in prison for treating injured protesters and partaking in the rally is a un team is set to arrive in bahrain next week and are to assess progress towards

its promised reforms now and that is a follow up on a similar mission last year all this comes after a report by leading human rights group which found that torture and oppression were on the rise in a country. where we have that actually the situation is much more spending months ago it's really the terrier eighteen we're talking about at least twenty four people being killed after they were being dependent from bahrain issued its reports last year about i don't know what protests of the mtu fucked over i'm not only a week ago there were a vocation of national to thirty one opposition activists were also talking about continuous harassment or human rights and one of them is now being the president of the bahamian center for human rights that was ten times the summer two three years increased and marry for having exercised its right to freedom of expression and we consider him to be a prisoner of conscience and we are talking about hundreds and hundreds of allegations of torture that happen especially since the beginning of two thousand

and eleven and international community has not enough pressure on that one. to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented it we're into squad we're not what we are seeing that you are on your. report was issued we have seen that that main commendation is that would ensure a come to justice for big teams have not been implemented time for some world news now well if i had a garment factory in bangladesh. ashes claimed the lives of at least one hundred twelve people dozens more were injured in the blaze while some are still feared to be trapped on the upper floors of the nine story building the cause of the blaze is not yet known although fires from short circuits and poor wiring are common in the country's clothing plants. the basque separatist group has announced that it is ready to disband and to put an end to its campaign in almost half a century of its armed struggle for independence from the organizations carried out countless violent attacks which of claimed more than eight hundred lives that is

thought to be behind the madrid train bombings which exploded on the eve of spain's general elections in two thousand and four the group is now seeking talks with the spanish and french governments in order to negotiate the total handover of its arms in return for the release of prisoners. of these five people have reportedly been killed and more than seventy injured when an explosion of rock to a shia muslim procession in the northwest of pakistan the blast occurred in a shop located on the route that worshipers pass by it's the second such explosion to hit the district in less than twenty four hours lifting the weekend's death toll to thirteen today's blast comes despite a temporary cut to mobile phone services which already being used to target remote devices the. rebels in the democratic republic of congo are refusing to surrender the queue city of goma and to lay down their arms despite pleas from african leaders the m twenty three group says that it's willing to negotiate over the

ongoing violence directly look at d r c president the country is facing a growing for monetary and crisis with around five hundred thousand people displaced since the lvalue and began m twenty three accuses the government of failing to honor the terms of a two thousand and nine peace deal that incorporated into the national army. a special report on women's rights in afghanistan is coming up after a short break. parents

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